Nathan and I picked them up at the airport yesterday–a box full of fluffy day-old chicks. We drove with them in the backseat listening to their relentless peeping, which sounded more like cheesy laser sound effects from a 90s video game than the sounds of tiny chickens. Is it odd to order our chickens from [...]
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A different kind of nesting
Posted in chickens, mark, meat growing, nathan on June 5, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Full disclosure
Posted in mark, nathan, spawn, the story of gay on February 11, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I was 20 minutes early for the business workshop, and so was the woman who shared my access card to get into the auditorium.We had a pleasant enough conversation; both of us worked in the same field for companies in similar industries, we were about the same age and temperament… for an awkward shoot-the-breeze-with-a-stranger-you’ll-never-talk-to-again arrangement, [...]
Greeting the things
Posted in around the farm, goats, mark, nathan, spinning on November 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hello, new corral-ish area where the goats will spend the winter. Hello, two men on two bales. Hello, rastaman with dreadlocks of handspun Icelandic yarn.
Overheard at the barn
Posted in nathan, overheard on October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“This amount of hay on the jacket of any other gay man would really piss them off.” -Nathan
Autumn in the sideways light
Posted in autumn, harvest, let us give thanks, nathan on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Between figuring out fencing for the new ram and needing to dig up potatoes and preserve carrots and get the garden ready for winter, not to mention acquiring firewood and hay, we’re kind of freaking out. It’s the last big push before the mandatory lull of winter, and it’s going to be madness. But in [...]
Divorcing the gay
Posted in let us give thanks, mark, nathan, the story of gay on June 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It was supposed to happen in January. Then it was supposed to happen in March. Then I postponed it to April. Now, six months later, we have finally filed our divorce papers. We’ll hear back in six to eight weeks about whether or not it will go through–the clerk expressed some disbelief that they wouldn’t [...]
2011 wool harvest
Posted in fibre fun, mark, nathan, sheep on June 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s one of those things that sucks to do, but once done, makes you feel pretty damn smug about yourself. No matter that I needed two people to hold one tiny sheep down, because I had good, patient helpers. No matter that there are second cuts galore, because I still got a lot of really [...]
Sheep shearing lessons
Posted in mark, nathan, sheep on May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The weather kept getting warmer, and my sheeps’ wool kept growing. It was getting a bit ridiculous to see them trundling around in the hot sun, trapped under such a thick blanket of wool. On the fence for months about whether I’d shear them myself or employ a professional, the catch pen success sealed the [...]
An anniversary of happenstance
Posted in let us give thanks, mark, nathan, the story of gay on May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A year ago, the heterosexual man and I were looking for a house. The condo I shared with the gay one was up for sale and the views were ticking up at an average of about one a week. While we were encapsulated in the eternal process of waiting for someone to like the condo, [...]
The other man
Posted in mark, nathan, the story of gay on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Three-and-a-half years ago, I set up a profile on a dating site and promptly began wading through some very sad representations of men. Most were painfully unintelligent. Some didn’t use proper words (anybody who asked ‘how r u’, for example, was automatically stricken from the list of possibilities), some were 40 years older than me [...]
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